Vegetable Garden at the countryside

This weekend I resumed a work that due to different circumstances (some of the comments in my Post) I had to leave aside even though it is one of the projects that generates me more expectations because the dimensions of it and what it means to work on a vegetable garden of these characteristics. With the addition of the emotional load that has since it is in the land of my own family.

This farmland is situated in the range, on the limit of the departments of Maldonado and Lavalleja, a few kilometers from route 12, the route that unites the cities of Minas and Punta del Este. A place of hill range, with gorge, water slope, . A place with a very particular energy due to the high quartz stone content and the tranquility and spirituality that generally generates us visiting places with these characteristics .

The idea is to generate a vegetable garden that produces food for the family, that contains a diverse amount of floral and medicinal herbs, and also could take advantage of the innumerable amount of the natural slopes of the place to make a fountain with aquatic plants and some fish. The garden has to be a place where you can spend the time practicing the necessary tasks besides a moment of relax

An important point at the time of projecting the work was the need to use local resources to build the stonecutters and roads, not only because of the scale of sustainability this kind of projects ought to have, but also to generate a space that goes hand in hand with the landscape and architecture of the place.

So we started to work and after plowing the land and leaving it ready we set the stonecutters. Stone by stone we were putting, to put together the spaces, always designing and rethinking ad hoc new forms due to the typical difficulties and changes that have to be made on the go because different situations that appear, from new natural conduits that are given by the rain and the slopes that are indispensable to respect, or dimensions that are rethought to allow natural elements such as stones or trees which can't be disrupted.

With 40% of the stonemasons set, and while the new ones continue to be built, we started planting seedlings and seeds that we had prepared (sometimes seeing the first seedlings planted is good to calm the anxiety a little, it helps and stimulates it to keep going). Celery, chard, arugula, parsley, various lettuces, spinach, cilantro, ciboulette, and some marigolds were the plants we chose to begin with. We will add herbs and vegetables as we complete more stonemasons.

In the upcoming weeks I will be updating the progress of the project. Hope you like it!